202 MEMOIES OF THE DUKE OF SAINT-SIMON.

Before the Regent was called to the head of public affairs, I
recommended him to banish the Pere Tellier when he had the
power to do so. He did not act upon my advice, or only par-
tially ; nevertheless, Tellier was disgraced, and after wandering
hither and thither, a very firebrand wherever he went, he was
confined by his superiors in La Fleche.

This tyrant of the Church, furious that he could no longer
move, which had been his sole consolation during the end of
his reiga and his terrible domination, found himself at La
MSche, reduced to a position as insupportable as it was new to
him.

The Jesuits, spies of each other, and jealous and envious of
those who have the superior authority, are marvellously un-
grateful towards those who, having occupied high posts, or
served the company with much labour and success, become
useless to it, by their age or their infirmities. They regard them
with disdain, and instead of bestowing upon them the atten-
tion merited by their age, their services, and their merit, leave
them in the dreariest solitude, and begrudge them even their
food!

I have with my own eyes seen three examples of this in these
Jesuits, men of much piety and honour, who had filled positions
of confidence and of talent, and with whom I was very intimate.
The first had been rector of their establishment at Paris, was
distinguished by excellent works of piety, and was for several
years assistant of the general at Eome, at the death of whom
he returned to Paris; because the rule is, that the new general
has new assistants. Upon his return to the Paris establishment
he was put into a garret, at the very top of the house, amid
solitude, contempt, and want.

The direction of the royal conscience had been the principal
occupation of the two others, one of whom had even been pro-
posed as confessor to Madame la Dauphine. One was long ill
of a malady he died of. He was not properly nourished, and I
sent him his dinner every day, for more than five months,
because I had seen his pittance. I sent him everi remedies, for